Baudelaire published his first poem book in 1839. This date is encounters the first movements of modernist period. The philosophy of the time affected Baudelaire's style. People was tired of the strict, disciplined, and excessively reason based rules of the time and the acceptation of the reality of human desires was the new subject of the time's author. Baudelaire deals with the evil side of the humanity, however he goes beyond to think that human is the combination of the good and evil, and he describe man as a wholly evil creature. In this point of view, he can be considered as a misanthrope. He does not make any distinction between himself and the rest of human kind, and self-hatred can be seen in his poems.
             In his poem To the Reader, the same pessimistic atmosphere is dominant. The poem displays the warped sides of human kind. Emotionless sexual desires, sadism, violence, obsession, and the dirty wishes of human nature is claimed in very hateful way in this poem. These features are united with a kind of devil, which people are creating in themselves to be provoked by it. At the last part of the poem, "BOREDOM" is represented as the worst enemy for humankind. In this poem, Baudelaire directly addresses to his readers (to all human kind), puts himself and the other people in the same place. Baudelaire has a very masochist way of expressing his ideas. He is like vomiting his anger to himself and to human kind. He uses so strong words to express his intensive feelings that sometimes they are irritating and excessive, but still in a perfect harmony with the atmosphere of the poem.
             The poem begins with four words, which are the subject of the poem. These words do not appear in the poem again, however the whole poem deals with these. "Infatuation, sadism, lust, avarice" are the inevitable elements of human nature. Consciously or unconsciously we are feeding them inside of ourselves. We are the v...